Stencil.



No. 740,961. PATBN'TBD 00T. 4, was.

B. A. WILcoX.

ASIEISTGIL.

- Anmounm FILED un* 11, 190s.

1m mmm.

BY M M.

ORNE

UNITED STATES Patented October 6, 1903;

BLIJAi-r ABBOTT WiLooX, or New YORK, N. Y.

STENvClL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,961, dated October6, 1903. Application filed March 11, 1903 Serial No. 143,285. (Nomodel.)

T0 a/ZZ whom, t may concern.- i

Be it knownthat I, ELIJAH ABBOTT VWIL; COX, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New York city, county and State of New York, haveinvented. anew and Improved Stencil, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to a new and improved stencil by means of which adesign of one or more colors may be applied to a porous fabric.

A most important object of the present invention is to provide a stencilof such construction as to adapt it to produce upon the fabric a designhaving a shaded eect; and another object of the invention is to providea stencil capable of producing a shaded design upon a fabric and soconstruced t-hat the edges of the design of the stencil are not liableto curl up, so as to cause or permit the color to flow under the cutedges of said stencil and produce a'design which is irregular and raggedon the edges and smeared.

In short, the present invention has for its purpose the provision of astencil by the use of which designs may be economically and practicallyproduced on fabrics in one or more colors and having sharpandclearoutlines and shaded bodies, thus producing perfect figures and mostartistic effects for the guidance of an embroiderer, for example. Thisobject is well accomplished by the construction shown in theaccompanying drawings, in Which- Figure lis a plan view of a stencilconstructed in accordance with my invention, and Figs. 2 and 3 aresections on the lines 2 2 and 8 3, respectively.

The stencil consists, essentially, of a body A, of paper or othersuitable fabric. The de sign which it is desired to apply is formedthrough said stencil by perforating it with varying minute perforations,(indicated asa whole by B.) The perforations which are shown in thedrawings are very much larger than they are made in the practice of thisinvention and are exaggerated in size and relative arrangement forclearness of illustration.

Attention is called to the fact that the outline of the design isproduced by perforations c and tothe further and very important factthat the perforations in the body of the design vary, being either atdifferent distances from each other or are of different sizes. By thusvarying the perforations a shaded effect is produed in the design. Itwill be understood that the lines of perforations indicated by b, beingcloser together or larger than the perforations c, will produce a shadeof a darker appearance than that which is pro-- duced by saidperforations c and that the imperforate sections cl ofthe stencil willleave corresponding uncolored or unprinted -portions within the body ofthe design. Thus byV properly positioning the perforations with relationto each other or varying the sizes of the same most artistically-shadeddesigns may be producedl upon fabric in a simple and thoroughlypractical way. Moreover, as

'the perfor-ations are very minute and as the contour of the figure asWell as the body thereof is produced by perforations the stencil will beof a,very durable construction and the design will be sharp, clear, andunblurred onits edges as well as in its body.

In case a design is to represent several col-zl ors-as, for instance, avine with green leaves`\ and a violet-a plurality of stencils is prefx,erably employed, each stencil complement4 ing the other and eachcontai'ni'g-that portion of the design which is to be produced in onecolor.

To use the stencil, it is applied over a pori ous fabric Vmade ofcotton, linen, or other suitable material and the color is rubbed overthe surface of the stencil. The color passes through the perforationsand is absorbed by the porous material, with the result that the colorpassing through the minute perforations coalesees to a greater or lessextent in accordance with the relation of the perforationspto each otheror the sizes thereof, so that the design upon the fabric is indicated bya solid color, but, however, of different shades, except where anappreciable imperforate section of the design appears in thestencil,lwhich of course remains uncolored in the design and adds to theshaded effect.

Having thus described my invention, I claim-- 1. .A stencil consistingof a body in which is formed a number of varying minute per- IOOforations, said perforations being relatively such as to produce ashaded effect in the body of the design.

2. A stencil consisting of a body in which is formed a number of varyingminute perforations, said perforations being so arranged as to produce asharp outline of the design and relatively such within said outline thatWhen the Color is applied to the surface of the stencil the resultantdesign will have a shaded b`ody.

3. A stencil consisting of a body in which l is formed a number ofvarying minute perl forations, said pertorationsv being relatively suchthat when the color is applied to the surface of the stencil theresultant design will have a sharp outline and a body par tially solidand partially shaded.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twoWitnesses.

ELIJAH ABBOTT WILCOX.

Witnesses:

J. E. PEARsoN, FRANK'. OCoNNoR.

